SKETCH OF SHUMEN [KOLAROVGRAD]

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2009
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• Publication Date: May 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTU.L
SECURITY INFORMATION
Bulgaria
Sketch of Shuman (Kolarovgrad)
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Following is the key to the sketch of Shuman (golarovgrad) which is to be found on
page 2 of this report:
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Railroad station.
Brewery?
Barracks and headquarters of the 7 Infantry Regiment.
Barracks and headquarters of the 10 Cavalry Regiment.
Headquarters of a division.
Officers? Club
Recruiting office.
Barracks and headquarters of
Barracks and headquarters of
Division hospital,
the 3 Army Artillery Regiment.
the 5 Artillery Regiment.
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
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amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
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Military ammunition warehouseo
military ammunition warehouse.
.Military ammunition warehouse.
Tanks and guns depot.
Tobacco factory.
Central Post Office.
` own.=People! s Council.
ire company.
Headquarters of the 2.Militia Uchastuk.
Finance Directorate.
Regional Court.
Movie,
Police headquarters.
Commercial bank.
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25. Headquarters of the 1 Militia Ucha t .
26. Moslem mosque "Tumbul".
27. Red Cross.
28.Catholic Church.
29. Orthodox Church.
30. Military Tuberculosis Dispensary.
31. Headquarters of the 3 Militia Uchas .
32. National Bank.
33.. Regional hospital,.
34. Cemetery..
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Sketch of Shumen (Kolarovgrad)
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
Bulgaria
Farms and Prices in the
Virgovishte Area
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. By July 19529 each of the following villages of Tu"rgovishte Okoliya (N 143-22.,
E-26.141) had established a TKZS (Trudovo Kooperativno Zemedelsko Stopanstvo, Co-
operative Farm .o: Probuda (N 113-17, E 26-38), Alvanovo (N 43-18,, E 26-140), Vasil
Levski (N 43-15, E 26-38), Suedinenie (N 13-19, E 26-38)9 Makariopolsko (N 13-20,
E 26-140), Bukhovitsa (N 43-19, E 26-11.2), Presyak (N 143-23, E 26-144), Mirovets,
.(N 143-22, E 26-141), M nastirtsi (N 143-21, E 26-38), Bistra (N 143-19, E 26-3i),
Davidovo (N 43-17, E 26-34), Breg (N 143-17, E 26-36), Vubel (N 43-15, E 26-31.,
Zdravets (N 143-17, E 26-29), Ralitsa (N 143-18, E 26-31), Lilyak (N 143-11, E 2628),
Strasha (N 143-12, E 26-314), Ruez (N 143-13, E 26-38), Kralevo (N 143-31, E 26.1j2) .
Pevete (N 1+3-139 E 26-141), Ostrets (N 43-15, E 26-114), Lovets (N 143-15:, E 26-4350
Osen (N 43-15, E 26-141), Bayachevo (N 143-114, E 26-140), and Loznitsa (N 143-22,
E 26-36).
2'a In 19145, the authorities seized all land holdings above 30 decares in size in
the Turgovishte Okoliya. The most land that an independent farmer was permitted
to have was 30 decares.
In addition to other taxes, the independent farmers were obliged to surrender a
portion of their produce. For each decare of the crop which had been cultivated,
the farmer had to surrender 18 kilograms of wheat, 36 kilograms of corn, 100 kilo-
grams of potatoes, 15 kilograms of beans, 148 kilograms of su?iflower seeds, 75' kilo-
grams of tobacco, or 25 kilograms of oats. Livestock owners were obliged to sell
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the government 20.0 liters of milk for each cow and eight liters for each sheep
per year; the faririers could deliver butter instead of milk if they wished, For
each sheep they had to surrender 7j20 grams of butter,
prices that the independent farmers received for 25X1
the products that they turned over to the governments
a. Wheat, 0.6 lava per kilogram;
b. Corn, 0.5 lava per kilogram;
o. Potatoes, 1.0 lava per kilogram;
d. Butter., 10.0 lava per kilogram;
a. Tobacco, 8-10 lava per kilogram; and
f. Milk, 1.0 lava per liter.
5? The following prices of various consumer goods were in effect in Turgovishte ae
of July 1952:
a. Pork, 6: lava per kilogram;
b. Beef, 18 lava per kilogram;
c. Veal, 19 lava per kilogram;
d. Fats, 20 lava per kilogram;
a. Butter, 20 leva per kilogram;
f. Cheese, 10 lava per kilogram;
g. Potatoes, l, lava per kilogram;
h. Black bread, 2 lava per kilogram;
i. White bread, 3 lava per kilogram;
j. Grapes,, 1 lava per kilogram;
k. Salts 1.6 levy per kilogram;
1. Petroleum, 2.6 lava per kilogram;
m. Cucumbers, 2 leva per kilogram;
n. Paprika (green), 3 lava per kilogram;
o. Milk, 3 lava per liter;
p. Seed oil, 14 leva per liter;
q. Wine, 20-25 lava per liter;
r. Brandy., 30-40 lava per liter;
s. Beer, 2.6 lava per half-liter bottle;
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t. Eggs, 0.4 - 0.5 lava each;
u. Cigarettes, 1.80 - 2.60. lava per paok',.af 20;'-
v. A good milk cow, about 1,500 leva;
w. A good horses about 5,000 lava;.
a. A sheep, about 300 lava;
y. A hen, about 20 lava;
z. A pair of shoes, about 200,leva;
aa. A shirt, 50-100 lava-
bb. A cotton suit, about 21i.0 lava; and
cc. A woolen suit, about 10000 lava.
A factory worker:; received 12 to 16 lava per days a bricklayer 15 to 20 lava per
days and a miner 20 to 25 lava per day.
In 191i.9, a TKZS was established in Probuda. In July 1952- its chairman was Vasil
Tsankov and the warehouse
The"Tk7 in Suedinenie was established in 1949 and about 150 of the 250 families 25X1
in-'the village are members. Some joined' voluntarily and some were forced to join.
The farmers who joined brought about 7,000 decares of land into the TKZS. Later,
through exchanges (called Arondatsiya; rounding off) with free farmers the TKW,
land consisted of four lots of equal size* pprsonne125X1
a. Yanko Peev,
b. Ivan Georgiev Yoto
a. Kolyo Doychinov
d. Dobri Tsonev
/`ABBIBI~ant chairman
f. NikolaVvlchev (called "Lingura"
chairman;. 25X1
accountant;
treasurer;;
warehouse attendant,;
wa~auouBe atten
eor3 Dimitrov (called "Baluren"
n charge of milk pro:ducti 25X1
Penko Georgiev Ioto~
i. Petko Georgiev Yo to
group ever ga r ; an
group leader.
g. The diahriei: cnunni9 nnnt*ols all the TKZS, in the_okoliya. In July 19520 Lenkov 2FYI
the TIKZS in the district. His assistant was Rizo Lazarov 25X1
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